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PWINSIDER Q&A: SAVEUS_222 NOT BEING JERICHO IN THE END, BOOKER T USING HIS NAME IN TNA, TICKETS FOR THE ROYAL RUMBLE IN NYC & MORE

Do you possibly see the whole SaveUs scenario turning into a swerve since it is so out there on the internet that its Jericho? Maybe Jericho returns to Raw and while cutting his big return promo is interrupted by a SaveUs video. He looks puzzled but continues with his promo. A week later he is fighting in his big return match to Raw and again a SaveUs video comes out during the match causing Jericho to come close to or wind up losing his 1st match back in WWE. It could then play out and be revealed as a former foe of Jericho. I know its way out there but could you possibly see WWE going somewhere else with SaveUs?

Until Chris Jericho returns to television, it's always possible WWE will go in another direction with the Saveus_222 videos, but honestly, doing so would only dilute the fan interest we've seen in the videos over the last several weeks.  There's a distinct difference between swerving the fans to give them something greater than they were expecting and swerving them just to show a portion of the audience they weren't right.  The latter only serves to undermine the entire creative process with unnecessary changes.

Do you have any idea when Royal Rumble tickets in MSG would go on sale?  I can't find anything about it, not even on the MSG website and it's not like the Rumble is very far away. 

I was told that they will likely go on sale in early December as the company realizes they will have no problems filling Madison Square Garden and want to focus right now on moving the remainder of the Wrestlemania XXIV tickets.

I was reading one of the questions that you guys received about the Candice Michelle accident on Raw.  Everybody is blaming Beth Phoenix for the pulling her out the corner, however, if you actually watch the footage hard and listen very carefully to the audio you can hear the referee telling Beth to "pull her out and pin her." He says it multiple times. After she does make the pin, that was when the referee make the X and they get assistance to the ring. Let's just thank god that this she wasn't seriously hurt.   Why isn't the referee getting blamed as well?

You do bring up a good point, but I believe the reason everyone points to Phoenix is that she's the one who actually grabbed Michelle, not the referee, so it's sort of overlooked that he instructed her to do so.  As I've written before, everyone should be thanking their lucky stars that it wasn't any worse for Michelle, injury-wise.

Is Booker T trademarked?  I only ask because 'Huffman' is appearing on the TNA tease puzzle for Genesis. I hope Booker can use his the nickname 'Booker T' in TNA!

Booker T has been using that ring name since he was working Texas independents in the early 1990s, so WWE couldn't prevent him from using the name, plus Booker is his actual first name. 

Any word on what the ratings were for the CNN wrestling documentary?

As Dave Scherer wrote the day after the documentary initially aired, the special drew a 0.6 rating for CNN.

 

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